Poland's fast adoption of the "Washington Consensus" after the fall of the Soviet Union was known as ______
a. autarky
b. shock therapy
c. developmentalism
d. import substitution
Answer: b
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a. Their usefulness is limited to when a state's homeland is directly under threat. b. Nuclear weapons are irrelevant to an assessment of the fungibility of military power. c. Nuclear weapons are not fungible as a power resource, but they are only one part of a state's total military power assets. d. Although nuclear weapons are not particularly useful for achieving certain specific goals, they do increase a state's political influence in the international realm.
The federal government expanded its support for local education from 4.4 percent in 1960 to 9 percent in 1980
a. and continues to support about the same percentage. b. but dropped below 6 percent in 2002 due to the war in Iraq. c. but increased to about 10 percent today. d. but increased to 15 percent in 2006 due to a booming economy and a desire by the Congress to gain thesupport of teachers in their re-election campaigns.